[2] Audette benefited early from travel to the United States in 1948 and as an attractive young woman, she became somewhat of a spokeswoman for the American fashion she had seen on her visit.
[4] In 1952, Audette moved to New York, then the heart of abstract expressionism which in turn became a strong underlying influence on how she styled her art for the future.
She travelled to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Greece and Germany before returning to her home city of Sydney in 1966, establishing a studio in Rose Bay.
[6] Mid-career may have proven difficult for Audette, especially when the unnamed art critic of the Canberra Times wrote rather disparagingly of an exhibition at the Solander Gallery, Yarralumla in 1975.
They described her landscape works as a departure from her usual abstract style, and as being 'sentimental' and "dewy and lovely" but felt they were dangerously close to "cheap illustrations and calendar art".
'[7] Audette's "significant service to the arts as an abstract painter" was recognised by the awarding of an AM in the Queen's Birthday 2020 Honours List.
[11] Her work, The long walk, was shown in Part Two of the exhibition, "Know my name: Australian women artists 1900 to now" at the National Gallery of Australia.